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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on September 09, 2010, 02:32:44 PM
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From today's "No I'm Not Making This Up file", I give you this. The latest in anti-tax measures from Romania.
FQ13 who is trying really, really hard not to make a Palin joke. Oops! not hard enough apparently. :-[ ;D
Banish the tax! Romanian witches 'frighten' lawmakers into voting against levy
Published September 09, 2010
| Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Abracadabra, we'll turn all of you into toads!
That's what Romanian senators may have been fearing when they rejected a proposal to tax witches and fortune tellers.
Lawmakers Alin Popoviciu and Cristi Dugulescu of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted a law where witches and fortune tellers would have to produce receipts, and would also be held liable for wrong predictions, a measure which was part of the government's drive to increase revenue.
Romania's Senate voted down the proposal Tuesday. Popoviciu claimed lawmakers were frightened of being cursed.
It's unclear if Popoviciu and Dugulescu will try to redraft the law.
Maria Campina, a well-known Romanian witch, told Realitatea TV Thursday it is difficult to tax thousands of fortune tellers and witches partly because of the erratic sums of money they receive.
Romania is in a severe economic downturn and is trying to raise revenue from taxes. The government hiked sales tax from 19 to 24 percent, and slashed public sector wages by one-fourth.
In 2009, Romania negotiated a euro20 billion ($26 billion) loan with the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank to help pay state wages and pensions last year, when the country's economy shrank by 7.1 percent.
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What if they can turn you into a toad ? Are you willing to risk the wrong door ? ;D
The lady or the tiger ?
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What if they can turn you into a toad ? Are you willing to risk the wrong door ? ;D
The lady or the tiger ?
That's funny, I just re-read that story a few weeks ago while answering a literature question for my nephew.